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The Dead Don't Bleed
Author: Neil Rollinson
Format: Hardback
Two brothers confront each other and themselves to overcome their family legacy, from the doomed coalfields of north-east England to sun-bleached southern Spain
'Thrilling and brilliantly imagined' — Sarah Hall
'Extraordinarily tense and tender' — Guardian
Frank Bridge turned his back on his family's gangland conflicts in Northumberland decades ago. His brother, Gordon, fled to Spain and has not been heard from since. Frank's life has taken a different path to the same place: he fell in love with Lorca's poetry and the woman who brought it to him.
But when their gangster father, the head of their savage dynasty, dies, Frank feels he must track down Gordon and tell him that their father's reign of terror is over. Can Frank's appearance after twenty-five years prompt a truce - a reconciliation even - will his arrival merely be the catalyst for more turmoil and brutality? Beneath the scorching, pitiless Andalusian sun, the two brothers are finally brought together for one last reckoning.
'Terse, bloody and vivid' — The Times
'A pleasingly thoughtful and atmospheric crime caper' — Daily Telegraph
'Savage, sorrowful, superb' — Niall Griffiths
'Vivid, lyrical and propulsive' — Malachy Tallack
'A compelling, beautifully written story of male heartbreak' — Ruth Padel
About the Author
Neil Rollinson is the author of four poetry collections: A Spillage of Mercury (1996), Spanish Fly (2001), Demolition (2007) and Talking Dead (2015). He won the National Poetry Competition in 1997, received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2005, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize for Talking Dead. The Dead Don't Bleed is his debut novel, and won the Deborah Rogers Award for previously unpublished prose writers in 2023.
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